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by SolarNet 10y ago
> - Slowing down in development I think part of this problem is the community, multiple people have reported having bad interactions with core language devs. Also the policies for inclusion of features, how to propose features, how decis
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by SolarNet 10y ago
> The base install is a bit bare. I think the problem here is the library approach. They should break stuff out of Julia's core library and move them into default included libraries (like python does).
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by SolarNet 10y ago
> Any serious academic discussion of biblical texts will involve syntactical breakdown of the text being discussed. I once interned for a company that's been doing this for years. They have all kinds of features tracing individual w
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by SolarNet 10y ago
The colloquial usage of GPS includes devices using GPS with maps in them.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
It's not a recent thing either. Before nazis it was the pharaohs.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
The core problem is library infrastructure and tooling of our programming language. > Compiler plugins and DSLs Name me a non-lisp language that supports that. A lot of LLVM based languages are making progress in that direction (by provi
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by SolarNet 10y ago
This prequel to this saga - Bill Gates screwing around using private donations to public schools - resulted in lots of horrendous education for kids in Seattle, even those typically considered part of the middle class. Bill Gates destroyed
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by SolarNet 10y ago
This works great for proper RTS games because the steps are usually pretty lengthy (in game terms, like around 200ms) and the way the game genre typically works means relatively little prediction or complicated simulation design are needed
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by SolarNet 10y ago
This is a tools problem. People need to know how to use the tools in a business or let them go. You don't keep carpenter around who blames power tools not working the way he expects when he never charges the batteries. Dropbox's r
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by SolarNet 10y ago
I think if the author copy pastes this article and then says: "So I'll be estimating the cost was approximately half a billion dollars" the agency might release the papers to prove him wrong. Either way they are punished for
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by SolarNet 10y ago
> Beta testers usually don't pay six figures for the privilege. Tell that to the star citizen people.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Reference counted ones, by carefully controlling when the reference count for objects are released you can make sure that the rendering thread never has to do any of the expensive ones, and instead all (non-trivial) reference releases are s
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by SolarNet 10y ago
It looks like someone got banned for submitting a PR as a hypothetical solution which a core team member disagreed with, why would I ever contribute to a project like that. Other people seem to agree on that point: http://danluu.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
"I'm not sure why Julia itself should make it difficult to "do the right thing" when exceptions occur..." Untyped, sometimes incorrect, exceptions, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues
735.
by SolarNet 10y ago
But in a language with multi methods defining new extensions to the type hierarchy is defining methods that overwrite some other methods. If startup code for a library calls any methods which are later meant to be extended you are going t
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Except their consensus making prevents real needed features from seeing any progress, sure they have thousands of open issues on the topic, but when did any of them last move. Oh and arguing too strongly on controversial issues (hex stringi
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Well, real-time 3d rendering anyway, thanks to the garbage collector and having very little control over it. How complex of a GUI are we talking here? Do you split it into many namespaces? Have long load times when not on a powerful dev mac
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Shrug I've never seen the mailing lists for Julia, I just recently started reading the github every now and then because it is an interesting language, and I like seeing the development of it. But ~~your community is~~ you are one
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by SolarNet 10y ago
I'll quote you as my response: "That would move the performance impact to runtime (and it would be everywhere)" and "You have to track dependencies between functions, which costs memory, and recompile functions when meth
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by SolarNet 10y ago
I mean scientific computing is what the language was designed for, use it if that's what you need. Just don't expect to be using those shiny numbers for anything but scientific computing (and most specifically when involving large
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by SolarNet 10y ago
It's probably doable, but also note how they say there will be a performance cost at runtime and it will be everywhere . Like I said, julia is cheating right now with the speed they are achieving while having multi-methods. It can be
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Julia does it right, but then also cheats. It uses high performance multi-methods, partially because it's a lisp and common lisp has been optimizing multi-methods for decades now. But also because Julia has a built in JIT with a very p
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by SolarNet 10y ago
That's literally what the preprocessor is for. The C++ inline keyword basically has the same effect, and probably half (or more) of your headers "abuse" it for exactly this purpose.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
It's nice because your backend doesn't matter. If I have a custom rendering platform I can probably spit out an image. But if I don't want to write a gui library or hook up some BS like QT, this is a super simple solution. I
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by SolarNet 10y ago
He wouldn't have paid so much in taxes. But he still would have not had the money. He's being an honest citizen and just giving the government the money, as, like he said, all he really did was work with his own knowledge.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
I think some ecological zoning is necessary. But more of a "you can't build on this land" and "you can't build things like this on land near this land". There aren't any ecological reasons for zoning areas
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by SolarNet 10y ago
But remember what they are saying they are trying to find here is the main character, not the main character in the universe. You actually argue against your own point. You say this is a popularity contest, and then say no one in universe w
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by SolarNet 10y ago
He also had other assets like gems.
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by SolarNet 10y ago
Yea, speech therapy is super super helpful. Six years of that was probably the most effective treatment I have ever received (and probably the only treatment that has turned out to be helpful 20 years later) and I was non-communicative unti
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by SolarNet 10y ago
If I ever run a company that screws up I'm calling you.

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